[ASA_PEWS] new book by andrea komlosy

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

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Andrea Komlosy



*ZEITENWENDE. CORONA, BIG DATA UND DIE KYBERNETISCHE ZUKUNFT.*

*Wien, Promedia 2022, 288 pp*

https://www.amazon.de/Zeitenwende-Corona-Data-kybernetische-Zukunft/dp/3853715052

*TURNING POINT IN HISTORY*

*CORONA, BIG DATA AND THE CYBERNETIC FUTURE*



*TURN OF AN ERA. Corona, Big Data, and the Cybernetic Future*



We are facing the transition from the industrial to the cybernetic age. The
economic historian Andrea Komlosy takes a look back to make the Corona
crisis understandable as a dynamizing element of the historical turnaround.
Komlosy assigns cycles of economic activity and global hegemony as well as
epochs in human history to historical junctures - from hunting and
gathering to the agricultural revolution and industrial society to the
current moment of upheaval leading into the cybernetic age. This transition
corresponds with a new accumulation cycle, which is characterized by
digitalization, robotics and interfaces between man and machine. Pharma,
biotech and nanotech represent the lead industries of the transition. At
the same time, we are witnessing the erosion of Western dominance and
increased geopolitical rivalry for hegemonic succession.



Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, New Green Deal, Great Reset, and the
measurement of all bodily emotions and thoughts are based on Big Data.



Corona laws made home office and online commerce the basis of survival.
They served as behavioral training in new cultural techniques. Medical
surveillance, motion control, and biopolitical conditioning transform the
body into an intervention field for data extraction, optimization, and
control.



Covid-19 will lose its threat. However, the acceptance of surveillance and
tracking has become part of everyday life. Closures and segregations can be
reactivated at any time if this trend fails to spark an anti-systemic
counter-movement. Such a counter-movement must aim at quality of life
instead of complexity and strive for self-determination and democratic
control of future developments.





The author



Andrea Komlosy, born in Vienna in 1957, professor of economic and social
history at the University of Vienna. Her most recent publications,
published by Promedia: "Arbeit" (English: Work. The Last 1000 Years, Verso;
Serbian: Rad, Slovenian: Delo) and "Grenzen” (Borders. Spatial and Social
Dividing Lines in the Course of Time".



Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version, revised by the
author)







*Table of Contents (translation)*



Introduction



Section 1

*Long Waves: Cycles of business cycles, hegemony and evolution*



1.1 Business Cycles

Business Cycles from a World System Perspective

The Cycle Model

Cycles as generational succession?

Controversies around the 4th Kondratieff Cycle

The Future of cyclical renewal

1.2 Hegemonic Cycles

Hegemonic change and business cycles

1.3 Evolutionary Cycles

Utopian and dystopian visions

Periodization of evolution

Cyberoptimism

Women and belief in technology

Ethical criticism

Evolutionary ages and Kondratieff cycles





Section 2

*The Corona Moment in the Historical Process*



Scenario, plan or opportunity

A bypass for the failing financial system?

2.1 Cybernetic Capitalism

            The leading sectors of the cybernetic age

*The medical sector - Robotics - Biotechnologies - Nanotechnologies -
Additive technologies -Cognitive systems*

            The promises of "disruption

            The boom industries of the corona lockdown

            The media push for online products

            *Online communication and home office / Online commerce /
Online services*

2.2 The new human being

            Work processes

            *Robots / Supply chains and just-in-time / Digital nomads*

            Datafication

*Data as raw material /From the exploitation of labor to the appropriation
of experience / Occupational health and safety – data protection / Desire
for mass data / Limits of the Internet / Corona emergency as data driver*

            Penetrating the body

*Health / Hygiene / Beauty medicine / Extending life / Corona and the body
/ The Corona vaccination / Big Data for Big Pharma*

            Control of movement

*Brief history of the passport / The reactivation of the health certificate
/ Corona apps and "green passport" / Global plans for biometric IDs and
health cards*

2.3 Geopolitical shift - struggle for hegemony

            China's catch-up development

*Zero Covid: Triumph or Handicap*

Competing Block Formations and Trade Policy



Conclusion



Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version), edited by the
author



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chris chase-dunn   邓宇歌
institute for research on world-systems
olmsted 1218
university of california-riverside
riverside, ca 92521 USA
consider using my textbook in your class:
_Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present_ Routledge
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